Sunday, May 26, 2013

Azerbaijan




Azerbaijan


Azerbaijan
Capital: Baku
Baku is the capital and largest city.
Caucasus mountains to the north.
Access to the Caspian Sea.




Conflict with the breakaway Nagorno Karabakh Republic.

The Qabala Radar installation is operated by the Russian Space Forces under contract until 2012.

About 95,000 total active duty military personnel. Approximately 300,000 personnel can be called up potentially.

AZERBAYCAN

Air Force
About 7,900 personnel

4 airbases
106 aircraft
35 helicopters

MiG-29 fighter aircraft (26)

SU-25 attack aircraft (16)
L-39 trainer/light attack aircraft (23)
L-29 trainer/light attack aircraft (28)?
Diamond DA42 aircraft
Yak-52 trainer aircraft

Il-76 transport aircraft (10)
Gulfstream G550 aircraft (1)
An-12 transport aircraft?
An-24 transport aircraft?

Mi-35 attack helicopters (24)
Mi-24G Super Hind attack helicopters (15)
Mi-24 attack helicopters (35)
Mi-17 transport helicopters (111)
AW139 helicopters (8)
AW189 helicopters (2)
AS332 Super Puma helicopters (10)


israeli made Searcher 2 unmanned aerial vehicles

israeli made Orbiter unmanned aerial vehicles



israeli made Aerostar unmanned aerial vehicles
israeli made Heron unmanned aerial vehicles
israeli made Eitan unmanned aerial vehicles
israeli made Hermes 900 unmanned aerial vehicles
israeli made Hermes 450 unmanned aerial vehicles



Air Defense
S-300PMU-2 Favorite surface-to-air missiles


SA-2 (S-75 Dvina) surface-to-air missiles
SA-3 (S-125) surface-to-air missiles

SA-4 (2K11 Krug) surface-to-air missiles
SA-5 (S-200) surface-to-air missiles

SA-8 (9K33 Osa) surface-to-air missiles

SA-13 (9K35 Strela 10) surface-to-air missiles
SA-7 shoulder fired surface-to-air missiles
ZSU-23-4 self propelled anti-aircraft guns






Navy
About 5,000 personnel
Operate on the Caspian Sea.


Frigates (4)
Patrol Boats (5)
Mine Warfare vessels (7)
Landing Craft (6)

Missile Boats (2)
Osa II Class missile boats with SS-N-2C Styx anti-ship missiles
Triton-1 and Triton-2 midget submarines used by Navy Special Forces

Naval Aviation
CASA CN-235 (3)
Eurocopter AS365 Dauphin helicopters (2)
Eurocopter AS332 Super Puma helicopter (1)


Navy Special Forces
641stSpecial Warfare Naval Unit
Tavor TAR-21 israeli made bullpup assault rifles








Army
T-90 tanks (94)
T-72 tanks (430)


T-55 tanks (100)
BMP-3 infantry fighting vehicles
BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicles (300)

BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicles (200)
BTR-D (21)
BTR-80 armored personnel carriers (119)

BTR-70 armored personnel carriers (200-300)
BTR-60 armored personnel carriers (25)
BRM-1 (15)
MT-LB armored personnel carriers
Otokar Cobra armored vehicles. Turkish made.

Otokar Akrep


Marauder mine resistant armored personnel carriers. South African made. (65)

Matador mine resistant armored personnel carriers. South African made. (55)


Unimog trucks





SS-21 Scarab (OTR-21 Tochka) short range ballistic missiles


BM-21 multiple rocket launchers
Turkish made T-122 multiple rocket launchers.

BM-30 multiple rocket launchers

TR-107 (Turkish made copy of the Type 63 107mm multiple rocket launchers)

Lynx multiple rocket launcher system that fire 122mm rockets, LAR-160 160mm rockets, and 300mm EXTRA rockets.


Lynx system with 122mm rockets
Lynx system with EXTRA rcokets


TOS-1 incendiary multiple rocket launchers (6)


2S7 self propelled 203mm howitzers

Turkish made T-155 self propelled howitzers
2S19 MSTA self propelled 152mm howitzers
2S3 self propelled 152mm howitzers

2S1 self propelled 122mm howitzers

D-30 towed 122mm howitzers
M-46 towed 130mm howitzers
D-20 towed 152mm howitzers

2S9 self propelled 120mm mortars

M1938 120mm mortars
Cardom 120mm mortar system on Mercedes trucks or MT-LB



AT-5 (9K113 Konkurs) anti-tank guided missiles
AT-4 (9K111 Fagot) anti-tank guided missiles
israeli made SPIKE anti-tank guided missiles


israeli made B-300 (Shipon) anti-tank rocket launchers
RPG-7 anti-tank rocket launchers
SPG-9 recoilless guns

Istiglal (Istiqlal) IST 14.5mm Azerbaijan made anti-material rifle.
OM-50 Nemesis anti-material rifles
PGM Hecate II anti-material rifles
OSV-96 sniper rifles
Sako TRG sniper rifles
AI Arctic Warfare sniper rifles
KNT-308 Turkish made sniper rilfes
Remington Model 700 sniper rifles
Yalguzag sniper rifles. 7.62x51mm. Bolt action. Made in Azerbaijan.
Dragunov SVD sniper rifles

PKM machine guns
M-60 machine guns
israeli made Negev machine guns
G3 machine guns
HP-7 machine guns. Made in Azerbaijan. 
Universal machine guns. Made in Azerbaijan.

AKM assault rifles
AK-74 assault rifles
israeli made Tavor assault rifles (Used by Special Forces)
M-16 assaulr rifles (Used by Special Forces)
M4 carbines
HK MP-5 sub-machine guns
Arsenal Shipka (Bulgarian made 9mm sub-machine guns. Used by Internal Troops)
Makarov PM pistols


Paratroops

Special Forces



Tigers?
Cobras?
Scorpions?
Eagles?



Cornershot

Azerbaijan National Guard

Internal Troops



Border Guard
Also includes a maritime wing which acts as the Coast Guard

Mi-24 attack helicopters
Otokar Cobra with Skif anti-tank miisiles
Otokar Akrep
Igla-S shoulder fired surface-to-air missile launchers







FHN- Ministry of Emergency Situations
BE 200 seaplanes used for fire fighting



Intelligence
Ministry of national Security (MNS)





Azerbaijan military forces pictures






The Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
Breakaway region in Azerbaijan composed of mostly ethnic Armenians.

Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army